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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Educators are demoralized. What's the way forward?
EdSurge
These days talk of low morale, and demoralization spans across education — in the nation's K-12 schools and at colleges.
For those in classrooms and for school and campus leaders, the challenge is how to meet the many needs of educators during this time — social, emotional, intellectual and ethical.
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As schools try to recover, COVID's toll lingers: 'We haven't seen fine, ever'
Chalkbeat
Just as the pandemic’s emotional and academic toll on students grew clearer last fall, staff shortages hobbled schools. When the virus seemed like it was under control, the omicron wave of cases brought half-empty classrooms or temporary returns to virtual learning. It’s been a year of survival and triage for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families.
Now a shift is underway.
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Teachers need our help. Here are 5 things we can do
District Administration Magazine
Administrators remain the most impactful factor in influencing the day-to-day quality of life for teachers. We must prioritize getting back to a place where administrators can support teachers’ professional and emotional well-being above all else.
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4 best practices school communication experts are embracing to improve family engagement
K-12 Dive
Not listening to the school community is one of the biggest mistakes education leaders make when transitioning from a communication strategy to one that focuses more on family engagement, said Elisabeth O’Bryon, co-founder and chief impact officer at Family Engagement Lab, a national nonprofit that provides family engagement tools.
It’s key to spend time identifying the experiences and needs of families and teachers as districts look to develop family engagement strategies, O’Bryon said.
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5 motivating practices to help new teachers keep going
Edutopia
For new teachers, the current challenges are exacerbated by all of the things that have always made the first few years of teaching especially difficult. As two veteran middle school teachers with over 50 years of combined experience, we want to share ways to sustain yourself, stay strong, and develop your craft. Here are our five Rs for fostering resiliency.
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Crowdfunding data shows how the pandemic changed what teachers need in their classrooms
EdSurge
While school districts wrestle with spending COVID relief funds amid staff shortages and supply chain issues, there often aren't readily available funds for projects that teachers feel increase their student’s mental health and their ability to transition back to school.
Across the country, 87 percent of U.S. public school districts have at least one teacher who has posted a project on DonorsChoose, a nonprofit crowdfunding platform for educators.
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How can K-12 become a great equalizer? These 3 factors are key
K-12 Dive
While there’s no silver bullet to “fix” education, Brownie said, there are a number of factors that must be addressed to make the necessary shift toward a system that provides more opportunity.
Among those factors is a need for greater recognition that despite foundational academic skills being important, all students also need experiences that prepare them to adapt and innovate in a fast-changing economy. And they need experiences that help them build social capital.
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PROOF POINTS: $1.5 billion in recovery funds go to after-school programs
Hechinger Report
After-school programs might seem like a good idea to help students catch up because they give teachers extra time to cover material that students missed during the months of remote schooling. But getting students to attend regularly is a chronic problem. High quality after-school programs sometimes produce reading or math gains for students who do show up, but many programs operate with poorly trained teachers and lessons that are disconnected from what students are learning in their regular classes.
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6 small but mighty ways to make students feel important
Edutopia
When setting priorities, the prevailing wisdom seems to converge on the same fundamental insight: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Separate the wheat from the chaff. Don’t make mountains out of molehills.
Inside classrooms, that advice falls short, according to hundreds of teachers who recently responded to our social media question, “How do you make your students feel important?”
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How K-12 leaders can help colleges diversify the principal pipeline
District Administration Magazine
To convince more teachers of color to enter the principal pipeline, New Leaders has launched the Aspiring Principals Fellowship, an online certification and master’s program, with two leading HBCUs, Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University. K-12 administrators can support the effort by identifying teacher leaders, assistant principals and other educators who have the potential to move into school leadership.
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Understaffing leaves after-school programs with unmet demand
Associated Press
The return to classrooms for the nation’s schoolchildren has not meant a return to work for many of their parents who, with workdays that outlast school days, are finding crucial after-school programs in short supply.
School-based providers list difficulties hiring and retaining staff as the biggest reasons they have not fully rebounded from pandemic shutdowns and they say they are as frustrated as the parents they are turning away.
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Literacy for students with special needs
MiddleWeb
Students with special needs face a particular challenge in middle schools. Literacy is crucial to understanding all content areas, and for many students with special needs, literacy is a weakness.
We can provide support for these students by focusing on providing a base of knowledge, opportunities to build fluency, and comprehension activities.
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As school communities have struggled to address the mental health needs of their students, the focus has been on treatment. Understandable.
However, we can start proactively helping our students in elementary school. Brain-based mental health literacy & resilience training provide strong Tier 1 support.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Cardona reflects on first year: 'The work is not going to get easier'
K-12 Dive
Despite being open, a majority of public schools are understaffed, student attendance is down, and assessment participation and results have consistently shown the remaining students are behind in their learning. Outside the classroom and in board meeting rooms, stakeholders continue to be divided over laws increasingly setting boundaries around curriculum materials and classroom discussions.
Amid it all, we sat down with Cardona to discuss his first year as secretary and the path forward.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
How upgraded technology supports teachers in the classroom
EdTech Magazine
There are some classroom devices that are fairly old that I hope the school is able to update soon. One of the biggest difficulties, though, is when new technology is put in classrooms without any training. This can be especially difficult for less tech-savvy teachers who may not learn the technology as intuitively.
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Connecting accessibility, third-party curriculum and student success
K-12 Dive
Research conducted by Mary Rice and colleagues found many online instructional materials used to teach the state-mandated curriculum standards used in online education programs contained text that was too dense and complex for the grade level it was marketed for. Some of these materials for middle-level learners were found to have characteristics of 12th-grade reading level.
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Apple announces new coaching program and features for educators
Apple Newsroom
Empowering educators with technology and resources is fundamental to Apple — that's why professional learning has always been a key piece of Apple’s education offerings. Apple is unveiling Apple Learning Coach, a new professional learning program for educators who coach teachers to get the most out of Apple technology. Additionally, the Apple Education Community, coming this fall, will be a new hub for Apple professional learning resources and a collaborative space where educators will be able to connect and share ideas.
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Modern Classrooms project envisions classrooms of the future
Government Technology
A nonprofit organization based out of the nation’s capital is taking the traditional format of education and throwing it by the wayside to focus on teaching students at their own pace. The Modern Classrooms Project wants to focus on personalized learning for K-12 students to keep an eye on mastery of a subject rather than time-based learning.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
4 essential components of behavior support in the classroom
eSchool News
Systems are what support staff behaviors and include training, ongoing coaching and performance feedback, efficient data collection processes, and opportunities for professional development. Models like schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SWPBIS) provide a framework for creating sustainable systems that can be brought to scale.
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5 ways to help neurodiverse students improve executive function skills
Edutopia
Neurodiverse students’ executive functioning skills are an often-overlooked area of need during individualized education program (IEP) development. When we design accommodations and modifications, and engage in secondary transition planning, it’s often related to supporting students’ executive functioning skills to access the instruction.
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Social and emotional learning in the spotlight
Wallace Foundation
Researcher Stephanie Jones and her team at Harvard’s EASEL Lab have been studying how to build children’s social and emotional skills since well before the pandemic and have recently published an updated and expanded guide to evidence-based SEL programs, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out. The updated guide by Jones and her team at Harvard includes more programs overall, adding preschool programs into the mix; provides recommendations for adapting programs for out-of-school-time (OST) settings; and introduces new chapters on equitable and trauma-informed SEL.
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Promoted by Stepping Stones Museum For Children
Empower your teachers with exciting new virtual STEAM-powered classes, clubs and workshops at award-winning Stepping Stones Museum for Children. The Stepping Stones Studio makes it easy to inspire and delight young learners with a celebrated lineup of play-filled, brain-building educational offerings now accessible to everyone, everywhere. “This is the most wonderful hands-on experience for children! The Traveling Seeds workshop was extraordinary. The students were engaged and learned a lot. I enjoyed watching the children play and learn at the same time,” a 1st grade teacher, Norwalk Public Schools, Norwalk CT. Click the link here for detailed information: https://www.steppingstonesmuseum.org/app/uploads/2021/12/21-School-and-Groups-Flyer-VIRTUAL-120821.pdf
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Early English lessons have lasting effects
Ruhr-University Bochum via ScienceDaily
An international research team has examined how English lessons in primary school affect language proficiency in this subject in secondary school. Children who started learning English in the first grade of primary school performed significantly better in listening and reading comprehension in grade nine than children who started in grade three
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Listen without guilt: Audiobooks offer similar comprehension as reading
Tech & Learning
A new meta-analysis looking at reading vs. listening to text either via an audiobook or other method has found no significant difference in comprehension outcomes. The study was recently published in Review of Educational Research and provides some of the best evidence yet that those who listen to a text learn a comparable amount to those who read the same text.
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How the COVID crisis caused K-12 to rethink testing
eSchool News
The pandemic reignited the debate over shifting away from high-stakes testing to a more balanced assessment approach that’s part of the regular instructional cycle. Many parents and education leaders alike hoped this would be the catalyst for ending high-stakes testing entirely, or at least shift the focus toward assessments that drive better supports for students. And while some progress has been made, new research suggests we’re at a pivotal moment for changing K-12 assessment.
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.IN THE STATES
Alabama paid $1.1 million for a school improvement report. What did it show?
AL.com
Boston-based Public Consulting Group, hired in 2019 after lawmakers called for an evaluation of the state department of education, said the department needs to take the lead when it comes to improving student achievement.
That means working on multiple fronts, from training teachers how to teach new English and math standards, to improving communication with the public, to beefing up support for struggling schools.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Rise and Thrive: The AP's Role in Enhancing a School Community
NAESP
In this #NAESPchat on Twitter, hosts and assistant principals Equetta Jones and Zach Korth will lead a discussion on strategies APs can use to effect change in schools by building a strong principal-AP leadership team, collaborating with teachers, ensuring equitable outcomes for students, focusing on academic and social-emotional growth, and engaging school families. Join us on Wednesday, April 6, at 8 p.m. ET, for this special #NAESPchat as we celebrate National Assistant Principals Week April 4-8.
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Safe Signals for Preschoolers
NAESP
For decades, the achievement gap in American schools has been attributed to the ill effects of children living in poverty. Advancements in neuroscience have provided new insights on this ongoing challenge, indicating that the issue is much bigger than poverty alone—it is a trauma gap. Maltreatment and trauma result in a failure of brain development in attachment, regulatory, sensory processing, affiliation, and cognitive systems. The cumulative failure of these systems compromises children’s capacity to learn in group settings.
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